Bullet Point Review: It Happened in Hong Kong.
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2 min readOct 18, 2018
- It Happened in Hong Kong, is a easy-going watch, with a plot that we have seen one too many times, thanks to the courtesy of Imtiaz Ali’s Tamasha, Jab Harry Met Sejal (to name a few), where two Indian strangers run into each other in a foreign land and decide to travel the rest of the journey together. With the series clocking up to just about an hour, I honestly didn’t mind watching another re-hash of this theme.
- The series is basically just a lot of conversations stringed together as the two (only) characters get to know each other, and we get to know them.
Amol Parashar and Aahana Kumra make an effort to elevate the conversations and make them sound organic, but the content is foreseeable, so you can basically predict what they are going to say next. - The quotes at the beginning of each episode were something you would find on a teenage girl’s Tumblr blog — very cliché, very cheesy.
- The cinematography is made to resemble a travel show but with all the slow-mos and close-ups of the two characters, I hardly saw much of Hong Kong.
The two leads were always in the center of the frame, and a randomly placed shot of their surroundings is inserted in between. In one of the scenes, you get a short worm’s view eye of the Buddha statue, but in the background, you have the two characters talking, and the content of the talk and the view on the screen, just don’t match.
